Monday, May 2, 2016

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JPOST.COM STAFF

Last week, Hamas deployed several hundred fighters along the Gaza-Sinai border together with Egypt to prevent ISIS fighters in the region from breaching the coastal enclave.

Israel, Hamas, and Egypt have aligned their strategies
and formed an unlikely alliance against the Islamic State in Sinai, who
are planning increasingly sophisticated and daring attacks in the region, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate,
referred to as Wilayat Sinai, is well equipped with weaponry and has
been plotting more sophisticated attacks since taking responsibility for
the October bombing of a Russian charter plane which killed all 224 passengers aboard.

Additionally,
the group consistently carried out attacks against Egyptian soldiers,
bombarding military outposts and planting roadside bombs in the
vicinity.

“They have genius strategists,” said Mohannad Sabry, an Egyptian journalist and author of a book on Islamist insurgency in the Sinai. “If you study the map of their attacks, they obviously know what they are doing exactly, and it shows that they have a great deal of freedom of mobility."

The Economic Ball-and-Chain of Regulation

As someone who spent virtually all of my life connected to small
business – dairy farming, real estate development, community banking,
and now a family buffalo breeding ranch – I learned first-hand that that
there was a real cost to government regulation. Regulations accumulate
over time eventually leading to the same result as the proverbial straw
piled on the camel's back.

Just how great of a cost is that additive pile of regulation on our economy? A new study
by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University came up with a mind
boggling answer. Had regulations been frozen in place in 1980, the U.S.
economy would have been $4 trillion – or 25% - larger than it was in
2012. In personal terms, that's an additional $13,000 for every man,
woman, and child in America. For a family four, it would amount to
$52,000 for that one year alone.

Put another way, $4 trillion of economic output would rank as the
fourth largest economy in the world; larger than Germany, France, and
the United Kingdom, and twice the size of Russia's total output. It
would mean a lot of jobs, better jobs, bigger paychecks, greater freedom
and opportunity.

Most studies of the cost of regulation focus on a particular
industry, a specific piece of regulation, or perhaps nation-to-nation
comparisons, essentially looking at a moment in time. However, there is a
cumulative effect of additional regulation over time that is very real,
too.

The authors of the new study, Patrick McLaughlin, Bentley Coffey, and
Pietro Peretto, took a longer, more expansive view. The study uses an
economic model that examines federal regulation’s effect on firms’
investment choices. Rather than isolate a moment in time or a particular
regulation or industry, the economists used a 22-industry dataset that
covers 1977 through 2012.

China Successfully Tests New Hypersonic Warhead

China successfully completed a seventh flight test of its new
hypersonic warhead system last week in the northern central Shanxi
province, according to an article onPeople’s Daily Online.

The
test of the developmental "DF-ZF" was monitored after launch Friday
atop a ballistic missile fired from the Wuzhai missile launch center in
central China, said officials.

The system can travel at
speeds between Mach 5 and Mach 10, which is 5 to 10 times the speed of
sound. U.S. intelligence fears that Beijing may use DF-ZF to “deliver
nuclear weapons bypassing even the most complex of missile defense
systems.”

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman first confirmed
China’s hypersonic missile test in March 2015, saying that the missile
test was not aimed at any country and was done for scientific research.

The
U.S. Air Force made an attempt a a supersonic delivery system in 2014.

The hypersonic vehicle built by Boeing Co. climbed to 60,000 feet,
accelerated to Mach 5.1 and flew for about three and a half minutes
before running out of fuel and plunging into the Pacific Ocean.

Mark Schneider, a former Pentagon strategic forces specialist, said the new Chinese hypersonic glider is a serious threat.

“The Chinese probably see this as one of their ‘assassin’s mace’ weapons which are designed to defeat the U.S.”

According to Schneider,
a National Academy of Science study concluded that hypersonic speed was
the equivalent very high levels of radar-evading stealth features
against air and missile defenses.

“Hypersonic speed also gets you to the target very fast which may be decisive in dealing with mobile targets,” he said.

Better to shun and demonize Israel than to protect citizens from jihad
mass murder. “France refused Israeli tech that could have foiled Paris
attacks – security expert,” RT, April 26, 2016: French intelligence
reportedly rejected an offer to purchase terrorist-scanning and tracking
software from an Israeli company that could have helped to prevent the
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With
talk abounding about a potentially brokered GOP convention this July in
Cleveland, a little background is in order. The convention’s primary
purpose is to produce a nominee acceptable to a majority of the
delegates, who are there, in turn, to represent the views of the party
members of their respective states.

The delegates’ job is not to simply ratify whoever gets the most popular votes—or delegates—as the nominee.
Were that the case, there would be no need for delegates, or a
convention; the victor could be determined by merely tallying up the
popular vote, and giving the nomination to the person with the most
votes.

In
the pre-telecommunications age, conventions were much likelier to need
to be “brokered” because candidates weren’t well-known outside their own
states or regions, and the party was much less “nationalized,” and
instead needed the various factions to hash out their differences to
find a commonly acceptable nominee (and platform). Today, all these
things are well known to voters at the time they vote in their
respective primaries, meaning the “hashing out” effectively occurs in a
series of voting in the various states over a five-month process.

“Palestinian” is a euphemism for Islamic Jew hatred. Previously I published the actual flag of Palestine before 1948. (above.)

What follows is an “aha moment” in Muslims’ war on Israel.

Now here is further proof of the lie (as if we needed any more) of
the vicious historical revisionism by the Muslim world to erase the
Jewish State and create a mythical Islamic narrative surrounding five
thousand years of Jewish history.

9,000 Photos from 1800’s British Mandate of Palestine – with no trace of ‘Palestinians’ By Palestine/Israel Conflict, February 13, 2013 (thanks to Dan F):Where ARE all those Palestinians, the proclaimed one million of them who lived in Israel before they were ‘displaced’? ...

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